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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Posey react when Chick asks if he can be with her if he dies?
(a) God will not allow it.
(b) Sure, she would love the company.
(c) No, she does not want him around.
(d) Now he wants to be with her.

2. What does Chick learn about his mother while he and she are visiting with Miss Thelma?
(a) That his mother and Miss Thelma cleaned houses together.
(b) That his mother paid for Miss Thelma's cancer treatments.
(c) That his mother lived with Miss Thelma for a short time in the past.
(d) That Miss Thelma is a distant relative.

3. Why would Chick pick up Roberta after school every day shortly after the divorce?
(a) Posey was just too embarrassing.
(b) Their mother was working.
(c) It was more convenient for him to do it.
(d) Roberta insisted.

4. Why did the narrator come to Pepperville Beach?
(a) To bury a relative.
(b) To close on a house that had been in the family for years.
(c) To buy a house.
(d) To visit a relative.

5. Why did the doctor who delivered Chick tell Posey she had to deliver by dinner time?
(a) His wife was making fish sticks.
(b) He had another patient scheduled for surgery.
(c) It cost extra if he had to work through dinner.
(d) He did not want her to go hungry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Chick believe Posey lost all her friends after the divorce?

2. Why did Len Benetto often spend long chunks of time away from his family?

3. What does Chick intend to do once he arrives at his destination in Section 2: Part 1?

4. When Chick's father asks to drive him home from a college baseball game, what does he do that causes Chick to feel all is right with the world?

5. What does Chick believe about his current circumstances now that he knows he is somewhere in limbo between life and death?

(see the answer key)

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